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d. 1913
A clergyman and travel writer, he is best remembered for a lively early-1900s portrait of San Francisco and the Pacific Coast. His work blends local history, personal observation, and the tone of an engaged visitor trying to capture a fast-changing city.
Joseph Carey, who died in 1913, is the credited author of By the Golden Gate; or, San Francisco, the Queen City of the Pacific Coast (1902). The book presents San Francisco through scenes, anecdotes, and descriptive sketches, and it also identifies him as a Doctor of Divinity and a member of the American Historical Association.
From the surviving book records available online, he appears to have written from the viewpoint of a churchman with a strong interest in history and public life. His writing aims to introduce readers to the character of San Francisco at the start of the twentieth century, mixing civic pride, travel writing, and historical commentary.
Clear biographical details beyond his authorship and death year are limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to remember him as an early-20th-century religious writer whose best-known work preserves a period view of the city by the Golden Gate.